Category Archives: Syndicated
Whitney Tilson is Shutting Down His Hedge Fund
(CNBC) Noted hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson said he is shutting down his fund at a time when industry assets are growing but returns continue to lag. Tilson notified clients on Sunday that his Kase Capital Management was shuttering the […]
White House Urged SEC Chairman to Pause Chicago Stock Exchange Sale to China-Led Group, Sources Say
(CNBC) The White House urged the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission to put on hold the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange to a Chinese-led group, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the […]
Equity Volatility Schemes Seen Widely Used – Fed Survey
(Reuters) Strategies to profit from stock market volatility are seen as widely used among hedge funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors, a Federal Reserve survey released on Thursday showed. For their hedge fund clients, nearly one-third of the primary […]
One of the World’s Largest Hedge Funds is Now Letting Computers Trade Completely on Their Own
(CNBC) It’s almost 11 p.m. in Man Group’s offices in London. The humans have all gone home. But the computers are just waking up. Man runs about $43 billion in assets through quantitative trading. Algorithms do most of the work, […]
The World’s Largest Hedge Fund Told Clients the Fed is Making a Mistake
(The Business Insider) The world’s largest hedge fund told clients the Federal Reserve was making a mistake by raising interest rates. “The Fed is basing its moves on classic cyclical indicators and the desire to ‘normalize’ the balance sheet,” Bridgewater […]
Citadel Returns Money to Some Global Hedge-Fund Clients
(Bloomberg) Ken Griffin’s Citadel LLC is returning capital to some of the clients in one of its multistrategy hedge funds as it seeks to tighten up its investor base, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some of the […]
Preqin: Investors Struggle to Source Attractive Hedge Funds
(Opalesque) Preqin’s surveys of hedge fund investors find that many report increasing difficulty in finding attractive funds in which to invest. Almost half of investors said in June* that they were planning to reduce their allocations to hedge funds over […]
The Stealthy Success of European High Yield
(Harvest) You might be surprised to learn that European high yield bonds were the top-performing credit market over the 10-year period ended August 31. In all honesty, some of us were, too. The development of the asset class in the […]
How a Professional Investor Looks at Economic Data
(Harvest) Economic growth and market performance are closely related, and it’s important for investors to have an accurate and understandable picture of the economy. To read this article:
SGX hits record volumes in FX futures
(Hedgeweek)Singapore Exchange (SGX) has reported a daily volume record for its SGX INR/USD futures contract, with a total of 108,417 contracts traded on 22 September 2017, translating to a notional value of USD 3.34 billion To read this article:
Lexington Partners Hits $2.66B Hard Cap On Fourth Mid-Market Secondaries Fund
(FINalternatives) Lexington Partners has raised $2.66 billion in capital commitments for its fourth secondaries fund and associated vehicles, easily surpassing the firm’s initial $2 billion target amid strong demand for middle-market secondary investments. To read this article:
Schroders Taps Ex-BlackRock Exec Prideaux For Solutions Role Sep 27 2017 | 9:53pm ET
(FINalternatives) Global investment management company Schroders has named former BlackRock executive Charles Prideaux to the new position of head of solutions. To read this article: